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The Problem With Automated Content

Shortly after the dawning of the Google Adsense Age webmasters learned that their sites were effectively little gold mines or “virtual real estate” as one expert put it. The more cyberproperty you had the more virtual billboards you were able to put up also called Adsense blocks. And so if you made n dollars by owning one web page with an Adsense ad or any ad on it then it was reasonable to assume that you would make n x 10000 if you had 10000 pages with similar ads on it.

Similarly reason suggested that 1 million such pages would make you n x 1000000.

Webmasters were eager to rise to this Gold Rush challenge and so were those presentday providers of picks and shovels the software developers. Applications were developed which could produce thousands of web pages in less than an hour from a keyword list. All you had to do was a little research using Overture’s keyword tool or its many free derivatives 8211; the more sophisticated practitioner of this art would have added Wordtracker into the mix 8211; and you had your keyword list.

Add some adjectival superlatives such as “better” or “best” or “latest” before each keyword and you had an even bigger list. Then after each keyword add “in New York” or “in London” or even all the place names in the English speaking world there are over 30000 of them and you had a massive list. The software which was available at the time could and still can produce whole websites consisting of tens of thousands of pages from your own such bloated keyword handiwork. Each page of that site would be highly optimized for one keyword phrase so that you could more or less guarantee that your page would be in number one position on all the search engines simply because it was so specific. Such websites could be cranked out and uploaded to your server all in the same day. You could produce 50 such websites each with thousands of pages in a single month; all of them with Adsense blocks on each page.

The problem was they were all unreadable.

Pages that were manufactured at that speed could hardly rely on human dexterity in creating their content. So the software which produced them 8211; and it was ingenious software 8211; had to resort to other means. These largely fell into two groups: RSS feeds and what came to be called “scraped” content. The problem with RSS feeds was that lots of other people were using the same feed. The problem with scraped content was that it belonged to someone else. In both cases the hyperlink which was obligatory but which could be turned off in the case of the scraped content bled Pagerank away and in other ways compromised the integrity of your site. Both practices also had the habit of leaving footprints for the search engines to spot. Lawyers’ purses bulged a bit as well.

At about the same time people searching the Internet complained of seeing bland web pages with content that was either nonexistent meaningless or repetitive even heaven forbid duplicate. The search engines addressed this by punishing web sites that displayed those tendencies and so raised the informational quality of their listings for a while. This punishment consisted of altering their algorithms so that sites or pages which demonstrated such blandness were either pushed so far down the listings that they effectively could not be seen or delisted altogether banned.

Along came a flurry of remedies. You could pay ghostwriters at Elance or Rentacoder to produce the content for you according to a specified keyword density but even at 3 an hour it was expensive if you wanted to replace all those thousands of pages which had just been banned by Google. Then a huge mini industry of private label membership sites came along charging you a monthly fee to use its thousands of stock articles without any copyright questions being asked. But there were seldom the specific keyword phrases you wanted in those articles and you could never control the keyword density; also you just knew that lots of other people were using the same articles from the same membership sites.

Other software came along and inserted random text at the top and bottom of each article so that each page became unique in its own way. Still more software was produced which substituted common words in existing PLR articles from stock synonyms there was word going round that if a page was 28 percent more different than another page then you were okay. The problem was that if the page was read as a whole it made no sense at all. But this could still fool the search engines. Just.

The search engines were reported to have recruited thousands of student “editors” to manually weed out such aberrations from their indices. More emphasis was placed on nonreciprocal inbound links with the appropriate keywords in the anchor text or within ten words left or right of the anchor text and other “offpage” considerations. And so it went on. And on.

There were all sorts of “solutions” offered to those webmasters who had known the heady days of the bigfigure Google checks for doing very little and were willing to pay almost any price to return to them. Accordingly the software became more ambitious. In turn the search engines became more demanding and there were increasing signs that perfectly legitimate sites were being punished as well as the spam pages.

We seem to have reached a point where something has to give. The browsing public does deserve better than scraped content RSS feeds and the abundance of protoplagiarism that it still gets. The need is for content that makes sense and is readable by real people and also of value as well as ticking all the boxes of the search engine bots’ latest algorithm. Equally webmasters have a need for such content as well yet they also have an understandable need to be able to produce that content on demand to their increasingly informationhungry readers. To satisfy such demands it is unlikely that one piece of software alone will suffice. Instead it seems clear that a system of content delivery needs to exist which is actually sophisticated enough to produce content which is of value to all concerned.

About the writer:  Dorothy Thompson is the editor of The Writer’s Life www.thewriterslife.net one of Writer’s Digest Top 101 Websites for Writers and the author of the selfpromoting eBook “A Complete Guide to Promoting Selling Your SelfPublished eBook” available at http://www.thewriterslife.net/promoteebook.html.

San Diego Strippers FAQ

1. How much money do Exotic Dancers make? This is a bit of a loaded question as no two dancers will equal the same week after week. You first have to view the job of Exotic Dancing as a business and being selfemployed. You cant just show up and make a ton of money. You have to first buy makeup hair products costumes stilletos maybe a travelling bag a padlock and countless other small items before you can even consider yourself a dancer. However once you have all these things you can begin to ask what you should expect to earn. This will vary sometimes greatly from girl to girl. We would say on AVERAGE a girl would make between 150 to 175 a night. This takes into consideration the slower week nights mixed in with the usually busier weekends. Please note weve known girls who average less then 100 a night all the time and some girls who make no less then 400 a night no matter what. What you make will depend entirely on how focused you are your sales ability and to some degree the look you present. Some girlsareborn hustlers while others never seem to learn what its all about even with all the coaching in the world. The short answer would be you could make anywhere from 50 a night up to 2000 a night.Just realize theformer is closer to the norm then the latter especially when you are first starting out.

2. What am I expected to do as an Exotic Dancer? Exotic Dancers are ENTERTAINERS plain and simple. That is what you are expected to do. Depending on the club you work at this could entail dancing in a bikini topless or even nude. Part of that will depend on the club you choose and part will depend on local or state laws. Exotic dancers normally will perform on stage which may involve pole work. They may be required to work the floor by providing table or lap dances and they are almost always required to perform private dances a type of lap dance that is performed in a designated room such as a couch room VIP room or Champagne room. Some clubs also might expect you to help sell drinks for the clubs which they then usually compensate you for also. You are NOT required to perform any sexual or illegal acts during your time in the club as an Exotic Dancer. You are a performer not a prostitute.

3. How do I apply for a job at a Gentlemens Club? There are a couple ways to get started dancing at a club. One way is to stop at the club and ask if they have an Amateur Night. This is a relatively safe way to experience what a couple minutes in the life of an exotic dancer is all about. This will also give you an opportunity to see other Exotic Dancers at their job and what they do. If your local club doesnt offer an Amateur Night and its a smaller club you could ask the general manager a few questions about the club and see if they would let you try it out some time during the week preferably on a slower night. If this still doesnt work out for you you may have to travel a bit or make some phone calls to other clubs in the general area and see what they say about it. There isnt any resume you have to provide at least not at small to medium size clubs and the larger chain clubs will likely require more then a little experience to be considered for working there.

4. How do I give a lap dance? A lap dance is performed by dancing in front of the customer sensually and seductively. You want to trigger the customers senses through sight smell whispering/talking and light touching. Depending on the rulesof the club you may have to be clothed or possibly topless when you do lap dances if they allowed at all. It is something that is better learned through practice and experience rather then something that is described with words. If you go to a club get a lap dance from the busiest dancer there and you will begin to see what a good lap dance encompasses.

5. Where can I get dance clothes and shoes from? There are various places on the internet that offer shoes and costumes for exotic dancers.

6. Am I safe working as an Exotic Dancer? Depending on your definition of safe you likely arent going to be comfortable as a dancer if you have paranoid tendencies. Most clubs do employ security guards/bouncers that for the most part do their job. However you will be groped fondled fingers jabbed in bad places constantly bombarded with requests for your phone number customers sometimes lurking outside after work so they can talk to you. You create a fantasy for customers at work and there will be those customers who cant distinguish reality from fantasy. These will be the one you need to worry about. You will also be working in an environment and lifestye that also readily accepts alcohol and drug use. You must always be your own person and if those things are not something you would usually do dont do them just because it is happening in front of you at work. Being intoxicated is a great way of inviting bad events to come into your life.

7. Can I trust everyone that I will be working with? NO. The truth is you should never trust ANYBODY in this business as there will always be people looking to take advantage of your situation. If you are newother dancersmight steal from you. Bouncers and bartenders will hit on you and try and sleep with you. Customers will try and get away with more then they are allowed to. And the club itself will try and take more and more of your hard earned money away if you dont call them on it. Not everyone who works in this business is bad but there are the ones out there who look for every chance to take advantage of someone. The unfortunate thing is we never know who these people are until its too late. Thats why its safer to assume everyone will try and screw you if given the chance. Thats why you must be vigilant and not give anyone that chance.

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About the writer:  San Diego Strippers offers gorgeous Adult Entertainers for all your party needs and for all occasions. Check us out at www.sandiegostrippers.vpweb.com or give us a call at 9165324494

Low Cost Website Traffic: Proven Methods To Generate Low Cost Website Traffic

There is only one main source for making any income from a website and that is a constant stream of targeted traffic. These days almost anyone can build a website even an outstanding website but with no interested visitors it just sits there. As the saying goes it takes money to make money and that holds true with Internet marketing and website traffic.

There is hope however because it does not take a substantial investment to generate targeted traffic to your website.

Many of the high traffic websites online are employing multiple marketing tactics to generate traffic. Some invest a lot of money in advertising campaigns and other costly marketing methods. They are spending large sums of money to make even bigger money. Great for them but what about the rest of us who need low cost website traffic?

Some of the top low cost website traffic tactics also produce some of the most targeted prospects to your website so at the risk of throwing another cliche’ at you. It’s not the quantity but the quality of the traffic that matters most.

Exchanging links with other related websites is one of the oldest and proven traffic generating methods online. However this method should be more than just creating a link page with tons of other websites plastered on it.

A good quality link exchange should be more than that. Perhaps a section of your website touches on a subject but is not your main niche you could then link to another website for more indepth information in return for them doing the same. This also provides added value for your visitors.

A key qualification in exchanging links with other websites is having similar content. They should share a general subject so that there is continuity in the information provided and helps target your traffic.

Link exchanges will also help raise your page rank and increase search engine listings. Search engines will rank sites higher in their listings that have quality inbound links from other related highranking sites. Its no secret that ranking high in search engines is the most effective way to generate low cost website traffic.

Traffic exchanges are another great low cost yet highly targeted traffic generating method. In fact you can join most any traffic exchange for free. You submit your website to the traffic exchange and earn credits to get your website shown while you view other websites. You can bypass most of the drudgery of clicking by upgrading your account or buying credits.

Some may discount traffic exchanges as a waste of time or money but if used effectively it can drive highly targeted traffic to your website. Usually a short effective splash page or lead capture page are much more effective that just placing your sites main page into a traffic exchange. Remember the surfers are doing this to earn credits not necessarily to look at your site so you must command attention with a good page to get the click to your site.

Traffic exchanges are also a great way to learn different marketing techniques. Keep en eye out for the pages that grab your attention and study them to learn how to create more effective lead capture or splash pages.

Article writing and submission is probably the most effective low cost website traffic generating method. There are thousands of websites that provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you are uncomfortable writing articles there are many freelance writers who are willing to do it for you for a small charge but to save money it is wise to learn how to write your own articles.

Your article topics should be focused on the theme of your website or about solving a problem that can be provided by visiting your website. Be careful not to blatantly plug your website or product in the article. Provide good tips and information on the topic showing off your expertise on the subject.

Including a resource box at the end of your article is how to get the targeted traffic to your site. You already proved your expertise on the subject in the article body and if the reader got to this point now its time to get that click. Provide a short informative sentence about yourself or your website while enticing them to learn more about the subject by clicking the link in the resource box.

Submitting your articles to as many websites as possible has two major benefits both providing low cost website traffic: Your article can be picked up off the article directory sites and used on other sites and passed around online. This gets you the advantages of inbound links described earlier and even more chances of targeted traffic after those website visitors read your articles.

Participating in online Forums only requires some of your time and nothing else. As you share your knowledge and proficiency in the subject of the forum with others online your reputation as an expert will grow. As you build your reputation in these online communities so does the reputation of your website.

Be careful not to spam any forums with outright ads for your website and follow the forums rules about posting links. Most forums will only allow links in your signature similar to an articles resource box. Most forums will always welcome new members as long as you don’t just blast on the scene with both guns blazing throwing links all over the place just promoting your website. You will have much better results by keeping it low key and adding valuable input when you feel others will benefit by your contribution.

As you can see there are multiple ways of generating low cost website traffic. Start out with what you can afford and use your profits to invest in some of the more expensive methods when you are generating a positive income.

About the writer:nbsp;nbsp;Jeff Houdyschell and http://www.eSmartJob.comprovides proven income opportunities information and resources for the best work at home jobs. Visit the workat home software and tools section of his website for additional low cost traffic generating resources.